In later generations, this function was so basic that it was even taken for granted. In 1999, it was epoch-making. It marked the first time that cross-device file transfer was enabled in one software. Later generations of Apple

It is by relying on this trick that a huge technological empire has been established.

For users, this function simply creates a precedent for the p2p concept, and is a concrete implementation of one person for everyone and one person for one. They can upload their favorite music to Qianqianjingting, and when they encounter the music they like,

You can also save these music to your own account and download them to your computer hard drive and Tianyin MP3.

Seeing Yin Wa skillfully performing professional operations such as "format conversion" and "audio uploading to the Internet", Kailin was shocked on the spot.

You know, before this, music distribution mainly relied on purchasing hard copies of CDs or tapes. Even if someone recorded the songs and posted them online, they were not necessarily in mp3 format, and they were scattered and unsystematic, unlike Mingyuan Technology.

Collect and organize in such a systematic and batch manner?

The model of ‘mp3 Internet’ is enough to make the distribution and copying of the entire music untraceable and uncontrollable.

Kailin could no longer use words to describe her thoughts at this moment. She could even foresee that the Recording Industry Association of America would definitely be devastated by this dimensionality reduction attack.

After being horrified, Kailin was overjoyed: Isn’t this the big news I’ve been looking for!?

At this moment, she directly ignored the Recording Industry Association, and those celebrities and companies that relied on music to make money. She was not a musician anyway, as long as she could keep her job.

"Dear Yin Wa, you are simply my angel!"

Kailin kissed Yin Wa hard on the forehead and assured her: "If mommy deducts your food expenses, I will replenish it for you!"

Afterwards, she hummed a little tune and went to write big news.

Hollywood, bloodymary bar.

The neon sign looked like a goblet filled with red liquid.

This is the name of a drink that is very popular in underground bars and is known as "tomato juice that never gets drunk".

In the bar, dim lights, loud music, and restless hormones are everywhere.

Lu Yiming and Su Zhenge were sitting on high stools, watching the woman in a bikini twisting around in the middle of the dance floor.

Su Zhenge took a sip of his cocktail and asked, "I heard that you were in a lawsuit with Dimeng, what was the result?"

Lu Yiming had an indifferent expression on his face and said with a smile: "I guess I need that little money. After all, I am living in the United States so that I can avoid losing money and avoid disaster. Probably more than one million US dollars."

It has to be said that the laws in the United States are still very complete. Although Lu Yiming took advantage of the loopholes in the advertising law and made a sidestep, the fines that should be paid still have to be paid.

To put it bluntly, this money is just like paying a visit to the pier.

As for foreign companies, how can they not pay protection fees?

Lu Yiming is very open-minded about this. With the current sales volume of Tianyin MP3, one million US dollars is just a drop in the bucket, similar to the exquisite keychain that comes with buying a Mercedes-Benz.

Hearing what Lu Yiming said, Su Zhenge felt relieved, and then he returned to his playboy nature and said with a smile: "That Mira threw herself into your arms, but you are not interested at all? Let me tell you,

Men, when you go out to play, don’t have so much psychological burden. Nowadays, rich people, regardless of gender, who doesn’t go out to play?”

Lu Yiming waved his hand, his interest waning, and said: "Come on, she is several years older than me, and it's not certain who the two of us will play with."

When Su Zhenge heard this, he burst into laughter: "Good guy, you still feel that you have suffered a loss, right?"

Lu Yiming asked: "Do you know anyone from the Recording Industry Association?"

When Su Zhenge saw Lu Yiming mentioning business, he also put away his smile and asked, "What do you want to do?"

Lu Yiming said: "I want to buy the copyright."

"Buy the copyright?"

Su Zhenge looked at Lu Yiming like he was a fool.

"Why buy the copyright? That mp3 you got, can't you download songs directly from the Internet? There are free songs, who would be stupid enough to choose to pay?"

Lu Yiming smiled and said: "Yes, but it would also be good to know a few more people. Do you have any connections in this area?"

"Of course, how about I call him now and ask him to come over for a few drinks?"

Lu Yiming said: "This occasion is not appropriate. Let's wait until tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. Find a place to have a meal. It will be more formal at least."

"Okay. Then tell me if you need anything."

"Um."

The two of them played in the bar for a while, and then Lu Yiming returned to live in an apartment he bought in the name of Su Qiao Pictures next to the office building where Su Qiao Pictures is located.

The next morning, Lu Yiming had just settled down at the American headquarters of Mingyuan Technology when an Asian employee came to him and said, "Mr. Lu, someone from the Recording Industry Association is here and wants to talk to you."

"oh?"

Lu Yiming couldn't help but feel surprised.

I just told Su Zhenge last night that I wanted to meet people from the Recording Industry Association, and early this morning, people from the Recording Industry Association came? When did Su Zhenge become so reliable?

"Invite him in."

After a while, Archie Nelson, California distribution director of the Recording Industry Association of America, walked in with several staff members.

Archie Nelson has a curly beard, messy shawl long hair, and wears a black leather jacket. At first glance, he looks full of artistic atmosphere.

Behind him were several middle-aged men in suits and ties, who were obviously either lawyers or clerks from the Recording Industry Association.

"Are you Mr Lu?"

Archie Nelson's tone of voice was very aggressive, just like how others commented on the Recording Industry Association of America - as Lu Yiming knew, the Recording Industry Association of America is an organization that represents the intellectual property rights of the music recording industry.

Internet users who want to freely copy published music adopt an extremely aggressive attitude.

Obviously, in Archie Nelson's view, Lu Yiming is also an "Internet user who wants to freely copy published music."

Lu Yiming didn't panic at all, and even showed great enthusiasm: "That's right, I am Lu Yiming. Yesterday I asked my friends to get to know the Recording Industry Association of America. I didn't expect you to come this morning and take action."

It’s so fast. Would you like some tea? Or coffee?”

Facing Lu Yiming's enthusiasm, Archie Nelson was not moved at all. He said firmly: "Don't try to bribe me. I came here today to sternly warn you to stop running your Qianqian Listening software in the United States.

, stop your infringement. Otherwise, we will file a lawsuit against you!"

"Huh? You guys weren't introduced by Su Zhenge? It's a misunderstanding."

Lu Yiming couldn't help but touch the tip of his nose, and his tone suddenly became serious: "Sorry, I thought you were friends. Are you going to sue me again? Yesterday, Dimeng went to court with me. Besides, upload

Songs are voluntary actions by users, and our company does not make money from these songs. You want to sue us? Have you won the lawsuit against Dimeng?"

Archie Nelson felt depressed when he heard Lu Yiming talk about the lawsuit with the Recording Industry Association of America and Diamond.

Since the establishment of the mp3. website in March 1998, the American record industry has expressed great dissatisfaction with this so-called "free" and "resource sharing" commercial activity.

Because hundreds of thousands of songs stored on this website belong to major record companies affiliated with the Recording Industry Association of America, such as EMI, Sony, PolyGram, etc.

mp3. The extremely hot traffic has undoubtedly caused a large loss of traditional record consumer groups, and will cause record companies to lose nearly five billion US dollars in revenue every year.

Therefore, when Diamond Corporation, which started out as a manufacturer of sound cards, began selling MP3 players, in October 1998, the angry Recording Industry Association of America sued Diamond Corporation in a California court. This started the process of

The life and death struggle between the Recording Industry Association of America and MP3 production, management and players.

The reason for the complaint of the Recording Industry Association of America is that Diamond's actions violated Article 17 of Chapter 10 of the current Copyright Law of the United States, and the Diamond Riomp 3500 produced by it is a digital product as defined by the American Home Recording Act of 1992.

As a type of recording equipment, the court requested the court to prohibit Diamond from selling the Walkman.

Defendant Diamond countered this, arguing that the function of riomp3500 is simply to replay compressed music files, which is not the same as the "independent recording function" stipulated in the American Home Recording Act. Therefore, riomp3500 is not considered a

A recording device.

However, this argument was rejected by a California court.

Because, judging from the text of the law, it does not require that the recording function of digital recording equipment must operate independently; secondly, adopting the defendant’s defense would violate the legislative purpose of the Home Recording Act to protect copyright holders.

The court’s final finding was that Diamond’s sale of Riomp 3500 may indeed cause damage to music copyright holders, because according to the provisions of the Home Recording Act, any manufacturer of digital recording equipment must install it in the equipment it produces.

Copy management system or other systems with the same functions to prevent digital recording files from being illegally stolen.

Therefore, the court ruled that Diamond should deposit a portion of the funds with the U.S. Copyright Office so that they can be distributed to relevant copyright holders to compensate for the reduction in sales of music works that may be caused by consumers using digital recording equipment on their own.

of losses.

However, for the Recording Industry Association of America, the harm it would suffer was not "irrecoverable damage," so the court rejected the Recording Industry Association of America's request for the judge to issue a temporary injunction against the defendant.

Although this round ended temporarily with the victory of Diamond Corporation in the MP3 camp, in December 1998, in order to resist the infringement of illegal piracy of online music copyrights, the Recording Industry Association of America

On the 15th, it announced that it would cooperate with the five major record companies and IBM to launch a standard format for downloading music from the Internet, emms3, to compete with mp3.

However, ti has not joined the Recording Industry Association of America. Instead, it regards the application of mp3 technology as a very good marketing tool. Through mp3.com, a website that provides song downloads up to 75,000 times a day, it can play its products for free.

The singer's songs directly led to the stillbirth of the emms3 standard format of the Recording Industry Association of America.

There is no doubt that although the Recording Industry Association of America won this lawsuit in name, it actually lost miserably.

Now that Lu Yiming has brought this matter up, he is obviously trying to embarrass Archie Nelson.

Archie Nelson was just about to refute Lu Yiming, but Lu Yiming changed the topic and said: "However, I consider that you do have difficulties, and I myself support the healthy and orderly development of the music industry, so we are willing to pay."

When Archie Nelson heard this, not only was there no joy on his face, but he felt that Lu Yiming was laughing at them. He immediately became furious and said, "Aren't you the fault of everything? You still want to buy the copyright now? It's too shameless.

Got it!"

The smile on Lu Yiming's face remained unchanged, he shrugged slightly and said in a relaxed tone: "Ah, if that's the case, you can continue to ask for no money, I don't care."

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To be continued...